The New York Times covers a studio’s effort to deemphasize the importance of the New York Times.
Are you ready for Children of Men: The TV Series? John Brownlee isn’t! Alfonso Cuaron’s film is “genre-defying masterpiece, exactly as long as it needs to be, every shot and line perfect,” he writes at Sci-Fi Scanner. “So obviously it requires weekly extrapolation to dilute the effect.”
“It dawned on me as I was getting started [...]
A review of one of the most anticipated films of SXSW 2008, Kimberley Pierce’s STOP-LOSS.
Before Saturday’s screening of his incredible Mister Lonely at the Alamo Ritz here in Austin, director/notorious bullshit artist Harmony Korine took the stage and, wired mic in hand, paced back and forth whilst grasping for the appropriate words to mark the occasion. “I’m not used to theaters where people eat like this,” he began. [...]
Karina is going to be on G4’s Attack of the Show tonight, talking about the SXSW Film Festival. The show airs live at 7pm EST, and reruns at 10pm. Watch it!
February 8, 2008 – 4:03 pm
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February 5, 2008 – 8:32 am
I did not expect to wake up this morning to a feed reader and email inbox full of stories about the full lineup for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival––the press release was not supposed to arrive until sometime this afternoon. But The Hollywood Reporter apparently broke the embargo on the information yesterday evening, so now [...]
January 9, 2008 – 3:39 pm
At Slackerwood, Jette Kernion fills in the back story on this cryptic post by Matt Dentler, in which the SXSW Film Festival director teased details of “a production that will make its debut at SXSW 2008.”
If you attended SXSW Film Festival in 2002 — or if the culty word-of-mouth reached you later — you may [...]
November 2, 2007 – 9:33 am
Austin film lovers (and SXSW loyalists, like yours truly) have been eagerly awaiting the opening of the new Alamo Ritz, which replaces the old Alamo Drafthouse on Colorado Street as downtown Austin’s Mecca for people who like to simultaneously watch movies and drink beer. The Ritz had its grand opening last night; bloggy reactions after [...]
October 16, 2007 – 8:34 am
I’m getting ready to fill out my first-ever application for Butt-Numb-a-Thon, Harry Knowles’ annual 24 hour, marathon film festival. My tastes do not always neatly dovetail with Knowles’, but for years, friends who have attended past BNATs have come back with rapturous reports. Another cause for excitement: this BNAT will be the first to take [...]
